How much did THE BUSINESS FOR GOOD FOUNDATION INC grant in FY2024?

THE BUSINESS FOR GOOD FOUNDATION INC reported 36 grants totaling $1,067,611 in its FY2024 IRS filing.

Where is THE BUSINESS FOR GOOD FOUNDATION INC based?

THE BUSINESS FOR GOOD FOUNDATION INC is based in NY.

THE BUSINESS FOR GOOD FOUNDATION INC

Foundation Dossiers Also receives grants — funding profile →

· Public charity

THE BUSINESS FOR GOOD FOUNDATION INC

The foundation engages in charitable grant-making and financial support of charitable programs of varied types to support including entrepreneurial support for minority-owned businesses and impact giving grants to local charitable programs.

$1.1M

Granted FY2024

Grants

Communities

$185k

Largest

01What you fund

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 42% of THE BUSINESS FOR GOOD FOUNDATION INC’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2024 · 36 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k5 grants · $38k
$10k–50k27 grants · $483k
$50k–250k4 grants · $378k

$15,000

Median grant

States reached

$6.2M

Total assets

Largest grants

EBENEZER SALON$185,416
THE HOWARD UNIVERSITY$70,000
GOODWAY GOURMET LLC$68,000
GIRLS INC OF THE GREATER CAPITAL REGION$55,000
MISSION ACCOMPLISHED TRANSITION SERVICES$40,000
THE GIVING CIRCLE INC$35,400
FULLNESS OF JOY PHOTOGRAPHY$25,440
MAESTRA MUSIC INC$25,000
FRANK CHAPMAN MEMORIAL INSTITUTE INC$25,000
ALBANY CAN CODE INC$25,000
PALACE THEATRE$25,000
PITNEY MEADOWS COMMUNITY FARM INC$23,500
CAPITAL REGION CHAMBER FOUNDATION$23,400
YOU INC$20,000
THOROUGHBRED RETIREMENT FOUNDATION$20,000

02The need

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY23–23, $30k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11% — the area typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

34%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$725k · 11 repeat orgs$1.4M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +115% since the first grant, against +48% for the ones you funded once.

11 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 25 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$725k

$733k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+115%

+48%

Still filing today

73%

59%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 26% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $666k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

EducationHealthArts & CultureHousing & ShelterYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

BT
BLACK THEATRE UNITED
2× · 2023–2024 · $210k · revenue +402% · 48% of their budget
CR
CAPITAL REGION CHAMBER FOUNDATION
2× · 2023–2024 · $160k · revenue +60%
GI
GIRLS INC OF THE GREATER CAPITAL REGION
2× · 2023–2024 · $91k · revenue +35%

Funded once

TA
THE ALBANY BLACK CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOUNDATION INCgraduated
one grant, 2023 · $176k · revenue +27%
KS
KINGDOM SERVICES GLOBAL OUTREACH MINISTRIES
one grant, 2023 · $148k
VC
VETERANS & COMMUNITY HOUSING COALITIONgraduated
one grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +52%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

Syracuse Model Neighborhood Corporation

The mission of the organization is to enhance and build resilient diverse communities, by supporting economic growth, creative community-based initiatives, and quality housing services in the neighborhoods it serves.

Housing & Shelter

The Center for Regional Strategies Inc

The center for regional strategies, inc. is a not-for-profit organization focused on planning, developing and implementing growth strategies to build sustainable community wealth, especially in underserved areas focused in western new york.

Community Improvement

Community Health Centers of the Rutland

Our mission is to be the foremost integrated community health center providing quality and collaborative care that is accessible to all people, in order to live their best lives and build stronger communities.

Health

Chautauqua County Chamber of Commerce

To create a business environment in the region where our members can thrive.

Community Improvement

Albany County Opportunity Inc

Acap works in partnership with families and communities to empower people to achieve economic self-sufficiency and an improved quality of life.

Human Services

Community Rebuilds

Our mission is to build energy-efficient housing, provide education on sustainability and improve the housing conditions of the workforce through an affordable program.

Health

Rochester Management Inc

To provide clean, safe, well maintained, and affordable apartments and townhouses, suitable for anyone, in many locations throughout rochester, new york.

Housing & Shelter

Adirondack Regional Chambers of

To enhance business in the community and to provide a networking environment for area businesses, promote tourism in the community and develop new business.

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Better Community Neighborhoods Inc

Through local knowledge, expertise and partnerships, develop and deliver resources to create opportunity for present and future neighborhood residents through quality, affordable housing activities.

Housing & Shelter

Cny Works Inc

To bring businesses, job seekers and training providers together to provide skilled workers for every business and employement for every job seeker.

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Pride of Ticonderoga Inc

Connecting and enhancing the community through housing restoration, downtown revitalization, historic preservation, and community development programs for ticonderoga and the surrounding communities of crown point, hague, putnam, dresden,…

Community Improvement

Home Headquarters Inc

To improve the quality of housing & neighborhoods in syracuse.

Housing & Shelter

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Interfaith Partnership for the Homeless and the most unlike its peers is The Community Foundation for the Greater. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 17 years old; the field is 19. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 15% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/27

the rest of the field

2,166/25,189

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

27 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

26/27

Grantees still filing

23/27

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$1,017,040Education$294,800Arts & Culture$245,000Housing & Shelter$195,000Community Improvement$175,598Youth Development$101,200Health$95,678

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Community Foundation for the GreaterNY32.7× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation for the Greater · The Mitzen Foundation Inc · United Way of the Greater Capital Region · Price Chopper's Golub Foundation · The Adirondack Trust Company · Ge Foundation · Capital Communications Cares Foundation · Sunmark Charitable Community Foundation · The Bender Family Foundation · Pioneer Bank Charitable Foundation · Mvp Health Plan Inc · Cornell University Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organisation THE BUSINESS FOR GOOD FOUNDATION INC funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: BLACK THEATRE UNITED.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~11 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 4 filed years.

Track record & reputation

medium risk

4 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 5.0× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 852146037 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on BLACK THEATRE UNITED, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 11 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 48% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to The Business for Good Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to The Business for Good Foundation Inc through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

THE BUSINESS FOR GOOD FOUNDATION INC

What you funded, over time

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

27 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Business for Good Foundation Inc?

More from the funding graph

THE BUSINESS FOR GOOD FOUNDATION INC

What you funded, over time

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

27 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Business for Good Foundation Inc?

More from the funding graph